Bombast

[bomĀ·bast]

Bombast is a noun meaning pretentious or boastful talk. If your football coach is known for his bombast, he probably gives a pompous speech before each game about the greatness of the team and, of course, his coaching.

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Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

Noun
pompous or pretentious talk or writing


n.
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

n.
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.

n.
Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.


Bombast

Bom"bast , n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine.] 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
A candle with a wick of bombast.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.

Bombast

Bom"bast, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.

Bombast

Bom*bast" , v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

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